Featured Poet: Lisa Starr
Lisa Starr
Lisa Starr, Rhode Island Poet Laureate Emerita, spent the last thirty years running an inn (The Hygeia House) and The Block Island Poetry Project, and raising two amazing children on a small island off the coast of Rhode Island. The business sold, the kids grew up, and Lisa relocated to Westerly, where she is at work on her next collection, Pot Luck, a book of poems about children.
Louis Gabordi’s work has been published in the anthology, Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis and in the Connecticut River Review. Lou has read his poetry both in person and virtually in a variety of settings in Connecticut and Rhode Island. He is a member of the Savoy Poets in Westerly, Rhode Island. While Lou’s poems address a range of aspects of the human condition, nothing so informs his work as his love, concern, and respect for the natural world. Lou is a retired educator and mentor to young poets.
Big Lux is a larger-than-life musician changing the way people see the Violin, and the world. His music reflects a life spread across five continents and multiple war zones, with original compositions taking audiences from Baghdad to Seoul to his hometown of Westerly, RI. Classically trained as a child, he blends Hip Hop, Blue Grass, Jazz, and personal life stories to create an experience for his audience instead of a show. Whether he’s playing a nightclub, a corporate event or a wedding, Big Lux delivers a musical performance you can feel. As much as he loves performing, Big Lux is also passionate about advocating for human rights. Having immersed himself in South American, Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, his love for people is rivaled only by his desire for us to do better as a whole. Both his music and his speaking events are socially conscious, personal and authentic, with an eye always toward a better tomorrow.